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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. If all else fails, your advisor may be able to salvage the sale by reengaging other interested parties. As an entrepreneur, you already built a marketable startup. Preparing for the sale. Identifying key employees.

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5 Risks Of Buying A Business And Profiting Off The Opportunities They Create

YoungUpstarts

Why start from scratch when you can get a great deal on what someone else started? But every year thousands of entrepreneurs become millionaires by buying and growing businesses without the startup headaches of venture capitalists, zero revenue, and no business processes. They make all the sales.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. However, for many successful entrepreneurs, weighing all of the personal and financial issues that go into this decision can be gut-wrenching. Each one can provide valuable lessons to the entrepreneur. Here are a few to consider. Unprofitable.

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Selling Your Business: An Interview with Louis Crosier

Growthink Blog

Among other impressive accomplishments, Louis is the author of "Selling Your Business: The Transition from Entrepreneur to Investor." Specifically, Louis is an expert on helping entrepreneurs realize their financial dreams by selling their businesses and investing their proceeds wisely. Which are the most favorable to the entrepreneur?

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part IV

Gust

This week we move on to something near and dear to the hearts of entrepreneurs and investors alike: The exit, more formally known as a “ liquidity event.” Entrepreneurs generally don’t ask for this kind of language, but most sophisticated investors will insist on it in one form or another.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

He is also a serial fintech entrepreneur with two exits; Founder of HBS Alumni Angels of NY , the largest angel group on the East Coast; and Founder of PEVCTech.com , an online community for investors in private companies who use technology to do their jobs more effectively. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company.

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How to value your company for sale (Part 2)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Most entrepreneurs would love to be in a position to have to decide! You’re skipping a step — trying to decide if the deal is even plausible — but how can you decide that if all you’re doing is thinking about the other side? Type-A workaholics like me (and most successful entrepreneurs?) At what price?

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